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Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of stories that were written by students in Jodi Williams’ English 1101 class at the University of North Georgia Blue Ridge campus. They are first-hand accounts of local people who have made an impact on the authors. As you read them, you will see ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
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Bobby Long, right, joined the Fannin County Fire Department in 1984 at the age of 17. Now, 37 years later, he is the subject of a profile written by Chris Thurman, left.
The radio in the ambulance blared the piercing tone, interrupting the chatter that was already going on from a fire alarm call, alerting us another call was coming. We were in Blue Ridge in Med 11,…